Pharmacy Aides in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,320
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$6,370
16.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,257
Idaho costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Idaho — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$37,690
Kept after tax
$31,320
Worth in national money
$34,257
State rank
16
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Idaho pays pharmacy aides a middle wage of $37,690, ranking 16 of 48 states and sitting about 0.03% above the national middle.
- Within Idaho this is lower-paid work. Of 476 occupations the state publishes figures for, pharmacy aides ranks 414. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $37,690 you keep $31,320 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $34,257 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $40,500, since top earners drag the number up.
- Idaho's median for pharmacy aides is $37,690, about 0.03% above the national figure and 16 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Against every occupation Idaho reports, pharmacy aides ranks 414 of 476, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Idaho is $31,320 after the full tax stack, from $37,690. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $34,257 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $40,500 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Pharmacy Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $55,500 |
| This salary | $37,690 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Idaho | $31,320 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,464 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$850 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $36,266 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,027 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Idaho earn less than $37,690. The published range is $34,250 up to $55,500, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Idaho's $31,320, worked from $37,690. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 414 of 476.
- Two cautions on $34,257, the adjusted value of that $37,690 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Idaho. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 414 of 476 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for pharmacy aides in Idaho the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,250 to $55,500. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Idaho take-home of $31,320, on $37,690 for work ranking 414 of 476 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 414 of 476 in the state.
- This $34,257 adjusted figure, worked from $37,690, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 414 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 414 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $40,500, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $34,250 and the top tenth $55,500, so most people doing this work in Idaho sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Idaho is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,257 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Idaho adds its own income tax on top — which is why $31,320 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Idaho is $40,500. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,250 to $55,500) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Idaho rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Idaho's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $34,257 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $31,320 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Idaho income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.